Through a confronting use of second-person, four haunted houses are hypothesized, each worse than the last, and ending with the most terrifying picture of all: dark reality in suburbia.

A couple moves into an old, country farmhouse and is touched by a sentimental grave. One day, a man arrives after being released from a mental hospital, tells the couple it's the grave of his beloved pet, and asks to dig it up; however, police detective intervenes and arrests the man. It turns out the man is a serial killer and the grave holds a suitcase full of trophies from his former victims.

Several mysterious deaths occur in a large house. When the crime scene investigator visits the scene, he becomes drawn to the perpetrator of the crime: the house itself.

Two twin girls live in a haunted house with their father as he writes his next book.

An inexperienced governess cares for an orphan in a gothic German castle and discovers that the child is a murderous sea serpent.

In British India, tales of the supernatural inspire a young English girl and her brother to chase an elusive ghost, despite their parents' skepticism.

A young man takes a woman to haunted ruins in England. They begin a happy romance until they encounter an enthralling monster and return from the ruins with portions of their memory missing.

A woman’s hallucinations of her dead lover take a dark turn when he convinces her to accompany him to the afterlife.

A girl who returns home from boarding school finds a mysterious couple who is visiting her parents. The couple is leading the family to build a maze in the backyard.

A boy chafes under his mother’s constraints regarding the strange allure of his elusive neighbor, eventually falling prey to her supernatural charm.